| 单词 | tobacco fly |
| 释义 | > as lemmastobacco fly tobacco fly n. a hawk moth of the genus Protoparce, either P. quinquemaculata or P. sexta, the larva of which feeds on tobacco leaves. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Sphingidae > member of genus Protoparce (tobacco fly) tobacco fly1807 1688 J. Clayton Let. 12 May in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) (1693) 17 947 There be various Accidents and Distempers, whereunto Tobacco is liable, as the Worm, the Flie,..and the like.] 1807 C. W. Janson Stranger in Amer. 339 The devastation produced by the tobacco-fly which is of the beetle species, black and large enough to be seen committing its depredations. 1904 E. Glasgow Deliverance 126 It was..mid-August—the time of the harvest moon and the dreaded tobacco fly. 1962 Metcalf & Flint Destructive & Useful Insects (ed. 4) xiii. 594 The parent ‘tobacco flies’, or hawk moths,..lay the eggs of the hornworm. < as lemmas |
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